THE. TE.NNIS caul\. T S T he Amateurs and tile Pros T HE amateur season is about to begin, for you can't count Ber- muda or the Southern-resort tournaments. This Saturday, the Aus- tralian Davis Cup team wIll play the United States team in what is inevitably and cumbersomely called the North American Zone final-round Davis Cup tie. In all likeli- hood, the winners will have the dubious privilege of meet- ing the German team, espe- cially Baron von Cramm. And it seems to be in the racquet bag that th challenger- France, Germany, Australia, or the United States-will play the Perryless team of England. The big professional tour-the Vines- Perry matches-ended on May 12th. Financially, it was quelque tour. These men-for it is to be assumed that in lawn tennis, as in court tennis and steeplechasing, only amateurs are gen- tlemen-played 61 matches. Some were three-set matches and some were five. Vines won 32; Perry, 29. Sets were even closer, Vines getting 88 and Perry 86. And the games were 965 to 958 in Vines' favor. In cash, however, the discrepancy was greater and the other way around, for in the four months and six days of play, Perry's net was $91,335 and Vines' a measly $34,195. The promoters counted 309,768 paying spectators, who parted from $412,181. The promoters, chief- ly Mr. S. Howard Voshell and Mr. Francis T. Hunter, split $374,710. 1\ LL this starts again the question of fl. the open tournament: Can Mr. Budge, the No. 1 amateur, beat Perry, the No. 1 professional? It is no longer a whispered secret that the United States Lawn Tennis Association would not be violen tl y opposed to an open tourna- ment, but it cannot hold one without the sanction of the International Feder- ation, which refuses, always, to give it. The I.F .'s platform is that the Euro- pean tournament calendar is so full that conflicts in dates would be inevitable. However, there are a couple of other things that will help to postpone the open tournament. It may be that the professionals think they see no cash or credit in such a fixture. They might be beaten, which wouldn't help their futures, and the actual money to be di- vided is small, for the West Side Ten- nis Club's stadium holds a scant 13,356, and probably would be filled only for the final. The pros seem not to want the open; the Association doesn't care for it; only the public would like it. And .i'\.mateur Sport, the old ostrich, pre- tends that there is no public, though it's thank you, Tommy Public, when the boys begin to pay. At Forest Hills, for example, the public has a nice, long walk from train seat to stadium seat and vice versa. But the sta- dium-seat-buyer knows this: that there isn't a bad seat, for to admire and for to see, in the whole place. Every play can be seen from any seat, and that's more than you can say for Madison Square Garden. To go on harping on that once-il- legitimate daughter, professional tennis, the professionals are no box-office guod after the first tour. One match between two top-notch players, like Vines and Perry, is enough for anybody to watch. So next season the promoters will have to get Donald Budge or wait. If I were a promoter of professional tennis, I would hope that Bitsy ("Bryan M., ] r.") Grant would emerge as the 1937 Comet. For Bitsy would win the hearts of a paying public as nobody has won them since the Tilden-Cochet and Til- den- Vines series in the Garden. I N their practice at Forest Hills, the Australians looked like winners, which may be because they appeared to enjoy playing. Quist particularly seemed, in practice, to be unbeatable. Crawford moved his 175 pounds anJ thirty-nine years about with smooth agility. The twenty-one-year-old vet- eran, Vivian McGrath, and the ambi- dextrous tot of eighteen, John Brom- wich, are something to see in practice, though neither may play against us. Nothing like Bromwich's backhand, played with the left hand, has been seen at Forest Hills since the terrible, un- orthodox, and often effective backhand of another Australian, Gerald Patter- son, fifteen years ago. Bromwich's fore- hand is played with both hands; these shots may be no good, but they have already beaten both Quist and Craw- ford in Australia. -F. P. A. . DEPT. OF UNDERSTATEMENT [Fro111 the Michigan Alumnus] M r Pratt is now in the East, \vhere he is attending his own wedding. * *" 'f* * * '* "* * "* * :.:"':-::::: '::: : ::: @ : :: : : ::;::. ' ) iif.": :' . }/-w.'l: :.<,:%' "'Ii"*;-:;:;.;:. , þ,ø;"'- . . . " ,.: .J v .. r ?: .<: ""., I""" :: * ) < ::mm ;.::. '.::.':: W:". .;,:?: ' >::<":': ':9'\: "'ntf4ø : '>: ;: '::: ::l:l ,: ..... 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